Summer School 2020 Offers Students a Chance to Get Ahead, Catch Up

Registration is now underway for Summer School 2020. Courses for students in Grades 6-12 will be offered in July through Grand Erie District School Board. Students can earn a full credit, change to a different pathway, recover an unsuccessful credit or upgrade marks.

“Summer School is especially important this year as a result of the COVID-19 school closures,” said Lisa Munro, Superintendent of Education, responsible for the Summer School Program. “Summer School offers a unique learning environment for students, with a condensed schedule to accelerate achievement. This year, there’s a wide range of course offerings, so it’s a wonderful opportunity for students looking to get ahead or to get back on track.”

Summer School opportunities will be offered using a virtual learning environment, and include eLearning, credit recovery, reach ahead credits and course upgrading. Summer school students receive the same credit value they would during the school year. Full credit courses run for four weeks. Credit upgrades and credit recovery courses run for two weeks.

Reach ahead credits are available for Grade 7-8 students. Two-week literacy and numeracy courses are available for students in Grades 6-7. Registration is completed through the student’s home elementary school.

Summer school begins Monday, July 6 and ends Thursday, July 30.

We are an Eco-School

Did you know our school is an eco-school? Well we are, and that means that our school is making efforts every day to stay green. Some of the things our energy efficiency group is doing include implementing eco-friendly browsers, starting lights out lunches every Monday and Friday, creating signs for lights and monitors, and adding important information to our school website about being eco-friendly. We're also having a fun sweater day where we’re lowering the temperature of the school by two degrees and we will all wear sweaters. We’re also adding Ecosia to all our browsers. Ecosia is a company that plants a tree for every forty-five searches on the internet. Students are also making fifteen signs and posting them around the school, to remind people to turn off lights and monitors. Sweater day will be held on the 29th of November, and the 16th and 17th of December. Remember to check the school website for more cool information about how we are going eco-friendly, and the steps to become a platinum school, and to watch a video about implementing eco-friendly habits. Always remember to stay green!

From,

The Energy Efficiency Team of École Confédération